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Vodafone India soon plans to enable making NREGA payments in Kerela through its newly launched M-Pesa, the mobile money transfer and payment service, created jointly with ICICI Bank. The sevice currently is used for money transfer, mobile recharge and payment of utility bills has been designed to undertake payment of wages under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA). The service is designed to help people in rural areas who don't have a bank account but have access to mobilephone. In Kerala , the company is focusing on migrant labour community comprising workers from Bihar, north east states, Orissa and UP, who are concentrated in places like Perumbavoor, Kazhakootam, Vadakara, Edavanna and Payyipad. The rail metro construction in Kochi and the plywood industry in Perumbavoor employ lot of migrant workers.
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wages, employment, rural labour, migrant workers, technology, payment, bank account, mobile service, Kerala
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